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Sitting in a class right now reading this while Hinton is teaching neural nets.

• textminer 14y ago
  I can remember times being a student, learning a lot, but losing focus of how amazing it was I had dedicated time solely to study. As someone working full-time now, who only gets to learn new fascinating math in his precious free time, I implore you to fully embrace the awesome opportunity in front of you. Enjoy the lecture, and milk whatever you can from this man's teaching.
  • tripzilch 14y ago
    Similarly, I am glad I did not have a laptop/smartphone with wireless Internet [in the classroom] in my college days. I fear I'd have learned so much less. In fact, there's a pretty strong correlation between my study results going down the moment we got cable Internet at my students-home... :-/ (on the positive side, Internet made me loads of international friends, and there's truckloads of things I could not have learned without it)
    • textminer 14y ago
      You just made me realize something. I attributed my own college grades slipping a bit my senior year to burnout, but it was also Fall '08, and I had just got an iPhone 3G, my first smartphone...
• tjake 14y ago
  Tell him about it :)